The Path of Dispossession

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 9 September 2007

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jesus tells us that we must get rid of all of our possessions, including the people that we have turned into possessions. It is in this sense that he encourages us to "hate our mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters." In the measure that these nearest and dearest are possessions of one's ego, they are a block to salvation.

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0:00.0	Word on fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries, serving the Chicago area since 1837.
0:06.8	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.0	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
0:17.6	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's
0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:29.2	love about the One who is love.
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0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:42.2	Peace be with you.
0:44.1	Friends, the Gospel for today contains some of the harshest words you're ever going
0:47.9	to hear anywhere in the Bible.
0:51.0	Jesus says,
0:52.8	If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers
0:59.2	and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
1:05.8	That's shocking, deeply counterintuitive stuff.
1:11.5	Hating?
1:12.5	I've got to hate my mother and father.
1:14.0	I've got to hate my wife and children.
1:16.9	I mean, wouldn't anyone think that the love of God is utterly compatible with the love,
1:21.6	especially of those closest to us?
1:24.5	Aren't we obliged to love our enemies?
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